Golf: Inbee Park wins second straight LPGA Championship in playoff

Inbee Park successfully defended her title in the LPGA Championship, beating Brittany Lincicome with a par on the first hole of a playoff Sunday in Pittsford, New York.

On the playoff hole on Monroe Golf Club's par-4 18th, Park hit her second shot into the rough behind the hole. Lincicome hit her approach to the left fringe, nearly identical to her position on the final hole of regulation when she made a bogey to fall in the playoff.

Lincicome chipped 6 feet past the hole and failed to convert for bogey. Park, the champion last year at Locust Hill in a playoff with Catriona Matthew, chipped to 3 feet and sank her par putt for her fifth major title.

"I didn't feel that nervous at all today," said Park, who won $337,500. "But once I got to the tee on the playoff hole, I just felt the nerves right away."

The South Korean finished with a 2-under 70 to tie Lincicome at 11-under 276. Lincicome shot a 71.

Lincicome squandered the lead she had held all day on the final hole of regulation. The American hit her second shot to the left fringe and was in a good spot, but a long delay for a ruling on a shot by Suzann Pettersen only heightened the tension, and it showed. Lincicome left her first putt 8 feet short and failed to make par.

"Not being in this position for a while, it all caught up with me," said Lincicome, who won the 2009 Kraft Nabisco for her only major title. "I was really nervous coming down the stretch. I was shaking like a leaf."

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Lydia Ko, a 17-year-old who was trying to become the youngest major winner in LPGA Tour history, shot a 70 to finish third at 8 under.

PGA: Camilo Villegas won the Wyndham Championship by a stroke for his first tour title since 2010. He shot a 7-under 63 and finished at 17-under 263. He earned $954,000 and 500 FedEx Cup points in the final regular-season event. He had four birdies and an eagle on the front nine, added a birdie on the par-5 15th and took the lead into the clubhouse. He then watched the rest of the field stumble. Bill Haas (64) and Freddie Jacobson (66) tied for second. Jacobson needed a par on 18 to force a playoff, but he rolled his 11-foot putt past the hole at Sedgefield in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Champions: Bernhard Langer won the Dick's Sporting Goods Open for his fifth tour title of the year, while Kevin Sutherland followed his tour-record 59 with a 74 to drop into a tie for seventh. Langer shot a 6-under 66 for a one-stroke win over Woody Austin (65) and Mark O'Meara (66) in Endicott, New York. Langer finished at 16-under 200 at En-Joie for his 23rd tour title. He won $277,500. Sutherland, the second-round leader, finished at 12 under. "I made some dumb bogeys," he said.

USGA: South Korea's Gunn Yang completed an improbable run to the U.S. Amateur title with a 2-and-1 win over Canada's Corey Conners. Ranked No. 776 in the world amateur standings, the 20-year-old San Diego State player never trailed in the 36-hole final at Atlanta Athletic Club.